Clothes-hanger



L. .D, HENDERSON. CLOTHES HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I7, 1920.

1 364,754. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Z. Zlflegyid arson UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LI'LIAN DUBPSTADT HENDERSON, OF CREEKSIZDE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

Application filed February 17, 1920.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LILIAN DUPLSTADTHENDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Creekside, in thecount of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, iave in vented new anduseful Improvements in Clothes-l-Iangers, of which the following is aspecification.

The ordinary clothes supporting means in wardrobes, closets and the likeis in the nature of a hook which is screwed either in the top, but moreoften in the sides of the wardrobe or closet. Wearing apparel suspendedupon such hooks is supported at one point only, the weight of thegarment caus ing an impression to be left at the point thereof engagedby the hook, and such garments soon lose their shape. To obviate thisclothes hangers have been supported by the hooks, or arranged onsuitable supports for slidable movement in the wardrobe or closet. Theclothes hangers take up considerable room, and quite an amount of timeis required in properly draping garments thereon.

t is an object of the present invention to produce a garment supportwhich shall be in the nature of an element fixed in a closet or the likeand which is provided with spring jaws that will efiectively engage agarment and retain the same in proper shape.

The drawings illustrate a simple and satisfactory embodiment of theimprovement reduced to practice, and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentarysectional perspective view of a closet, wardrobe or the likeillustrating the application of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the improvement.

Fig. 3 is a view of the jaw member of the improvement.

Fig. 4L is a view of the body member of the improvement.

Preferably and as disclosed by the drawings my improved garment supportor hanger is constructed from two strands of suitable wire to provide abody 1 and a jaw 2.

The jaw member is bent to provide a sub stantially rectangular element,and the upper arms 3 whereof being rounded upon themselves to provide aplurality of longitudinally arranged contacting eyes or coils 1. Thefree ends of the strand constituting Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Jan. 4., 1921.

Serial No. 359 293.

the jaw are disposed at the front ends of the coiled or eye portions 1and for distinction the said ends are indicated by the numeral 5.

The body member 1 has one of its end strands threaded as indicated bythe numeral 6. This strand will hereinafter, for the purpose ofconvenience be referred to as the stem of the device. The stem may bebent angularly as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2 of thedrawings or will be retained straight, in any event the threaded stem isdesigned to be inserted in a suitable support, such as illustrated inFig. 1. The second end strand, is indicated by the numeral 7, and bothof the strands are bent at right angles in opposite directions toprovide the upper arms 8 of the body. These upper arms pass through theeyes or coils on the upper arms of the jaw and extend a suitabledistance over the end members 8 of the jaw. The strands 8, at thecorners of the body are twisted upon themselves and bent upwardly toprovide loops 9, and are from thence extended downwardly to provide thesides 10 of the body, the said sides being bent to provide the lower arm11 of the body. This arm 11 is disposed in the path of contact with thesides 8 of the jaw 2. The loops, when the stem 6 is disposed at anangle, contact with the support and hold the body a suitable distanceaway from such support so that a garment engaged between the jaw andbody will not contact with the support.

When the parts are assembled as above described the strands 5 of the jawand the end strand of the body are twisted or coiled around the straightportion of the stem 6. As the jaw member embodies an inherent resiliencyit will be apparent that the jaw is both hingedly supported from thebody and secured thereto in a manner to permit of the same springinginwardly thereagainst.

The device may be of a length to effectively su port a garment thereon,but as a number of the same are employed in a closet or other supportand are preferably arranged in parallelism, two of the clamping membersmay be employed for supporting a single garment. It is believed that thesimplicity of the construction and the advantages of the device will beapparent to those skilled in the art to which such inventions appertainwithout further detail description.

Having thus described the invention,what I claim is A garment clampconstructed from two.

strands of resilient wire to comprise a body and a jaw, one of the endstrands of the body being threaded and extended beyond the other endstrand, both the said strands being bent angularly in oppositedirections and having their ends coiled and extended upwardly to provideloops and downwardly to provide sides for the body, a connecting elementfor the sides, the jaw having coiled portions adjacent its ends whichare received on the upper portion of the body, the said strands outwardof the coils being extended 15 and bent downwardly to provide the endsof the jaw which are disposed inward of the ends of the body and whichcontact with the lower member of the body, a connecting member for thelower portions of the ends, 20 and the end strands of the jaw, theshorter end strand of the body being bent around the threaded end strandof the said body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LILIAN DUPPSTADT HENDERSON.

